"We stayed on our street all day for a couple of weeks, doing all the work we
needed to do to convince people we weren’t a problem. We never got around to
telling anyone that we’d bought the city, because we weren’t having the kinds
of conversations where you’d bring that up. We told people we’d lost our jobs
instead, that Detroit was cheap. They’d nod. We smoked up a lot and drank
plenty of the lemonade stuff, which was yellow Crystal Light mixed with water
and vodka."